Techbronyc
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$50 for 2 drinks and an order of mozzarella sticks in Manhattan
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Europeans can’t fathom what a $12 American sandwich looks like
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Fine line between looking like the cuck loser with a briefcase and a nerd with a backpack. Hard to get that right. Lots of environment variables at play
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If a health guru drinks a dozen beers, or eats McDonald’s, they will be physically and mentally paralyzed for days.
Their bodies and routines are fragile and not built for resilience like mine. My systems are constantly stress tested.
This is what they get wrong. Be antifragile
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Hate one of my employees and want to fire him, but he's ingrained himself so deeply in the operations of a big account that I can't pull the trigger without really moving things around. Less effort to just keep him.
Lesson in there for the 4HL crowd
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Abs are a young mans game. Nobody has any cash or real success yet, so there's some value with women and they help you standout.
Once you reach 30, abs turn into more of a homo signal. Still should look like a unit and stay fit, but energy should be on cash/building/career
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Net Income
July 2023: (332k)
July 2024: (7k)
Just about profitable. August projecting to get us there.
12 month grind. Fired/laid off 25 people. Watched the bank account dwindle to under 25k multiple times. Wondered if we'd make payroll.
Key to surviving post Zirp: Huge nuts
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Couple of rules when getting engaged (that I made up):
-Get down on one knee when asking, tradition is good
-Ask her father, tradition is good
-No pictures of you on one knee, for her and god to see only
-No saying She said yes!! Like a fag boy. Don’t emasculate yourself
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When you see a founder getting fat, the startup is probably exploding with growth. If a founder is getting fitter, probably not much going on and he has some free time. Free alpha for VCs, invest heavily when you see them a little chubbier in between meetings.
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Looks like it’ll be just shy of 100k for my wedding in 2024. That’s not even anything over the top, just what these things cost now
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This is what celebrating getting your startup to profitability looks like as a big shot founder
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Stop worrying about the “latest thing” and start worrying about making money you nerds
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Very gay that a million bucks doesn’t make you rich anymore. That’s a modest retirement account for a 40 year old
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Can put men in three buckets:
1. Winners
2. Losers
3. Guys afraid to find out if they belong in bucket 1 or 2
Worst kinda guy is in bucket 3, the biggest loser of them all.
Goes through life too afraid to try anything because he might find out he was a loser all along
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Pay a couple hundred bucks a month on Ubers for my fiance to avoid the underclass of the subway. Too many animals.
Unaesthetic to send women underground anyway, the dark undergrounds have historically been a place for men. Women belong on the ground level close to the floor.
Decided to bypass the corporate ladder and just wear corporate attire to run errands 🤓
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Biggest advice in finding a woman is putting yourself in the proximity of women. Suburbs you’re in the proximity of families and divorced 40 year olds.
Also zero point in buying a house before married w kids. “Home equity” is a boomer justification, not a real investment vehicle
I would not recommend this. One year ago I bought a house in the suburbs as a single guy and it's been perhaps the most lonely, depressing, stressful, and isolating times of my life. I learned the hard way that property should come after you're engaged/married.
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I am deadass on a zoom call with a big customer right now and someone from their team is wearing a covid mask at home with an anime pillow behind them
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Whole world is becoming more refined and optimized. People meticulously watching what they eat, how much they drink, who they hang out with and where. Completely neurotic.
And it's why the world years for a renegade type man who throws that out the window and does what he wants
too many intimate dinners and not enough degenerate house parties. huberman must pay for what he has done
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Best part about being a founder is being able to toss my tech lead 20k discretionary shares after he finishes an impossible task in less than 24 hours to onboard out biggest client to date. Gotta reward your top guys
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Nice hot shower to start my day with the mindset of a King with luxuries, and not the mindset of a peasant who needs to jump in the closest cold river to wash the stench off
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One of the early and embarrassing phases that most men go through is the "Look at me, I'm crushing it" phase. Very feminine in nature.
Next realization is that you're above average but still a loser compared to the big winners. Then you get back to work and cut the girl posting
“The average ____ can’t even do ___”
😂😂 that’s not your competition bro
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You need to be both insecure and irrationally confident to be bigly successful:
-Insecure in that you constantly don’t think you’re good enough and need to work harder to matter how high you rise
-irrational confidence to always believe you can beat the unbeatable insecurity
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Need to be the type of guy people refer to as “bull”.
No dilly-dallying, no pushing things to next weeks gay little sync, just the type of guy who makes fast decisions, doesn’t ask dumb questions and gets things done.
Don’t see this American archetype very often anymore.
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Put in charge of writing the thank you note for my wedding:
Words cannot express the joy that we feel having our favorite patriots here to celebrate. You've made us who we are, and we are forever grateful. And with your help this November, we will Make America Great Again.
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Deal is done, acquired a company. Feels good man
Thinking we get a deal done today, gotta give these guys props for negotiating. Thought they'd lay down like dogs, putting up a great fight
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You look like such a little cuck constantly muting and unmuting yourself on your video calls, giving yourself permission to speak and make noise. I just leave mic on, don't care if you can hear my background
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When you push yourself to the limit for extended periods, gas pedal pressed down, you either blow the engine out or find out that you have another gear you can comfortably operate at.
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Will likely tender them an all equity buyout offer today
36 hours in Dallas. May acquire a company, may get my company acquired. Maybe we merge. Let’s find out
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Self esteem and confidence are a derivative of competence. Just need to put the work in to get good at something and you will feel like the man of the room
FIVE WAYS TO BUILD YOUR SELF ESTEEM
• Establish a healthy daily habit, even if small
• Develop a talent and turn it into a skill
• Overcome a fear that's been holding you back
• Strengthen your body through sports, gym, martial arts
• Fail hard and realize that life goes on
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Prompt engineering is funny in that people don't realize that it kinda works on yourself as well.
Before walking into a meeting or a date, or going for a deadlift PR, you can literally talk to yourself and convince yourself that you're the man and this is easy, and then it is.
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Might start phrasing my offers to employees like NFL contracts, sounds cooler:
-5 year deal worth 1.5M, 1M in cash, 400k in equity, 100k in benefits/retirement with EOY performance incentives w yearly player option
-200k salary, 100k shares vesting over 4 years, w/ spot bonuses
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Much harder to yell at someone via slack or zoom than in person. Weird feeling on both sides, deep down both people know one guy is yelling at a computer, and the other guy is just hearing sounds from a computer.
Big advantage of remote work for the employee vs the employer.
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Very important to recognize when emotions are high during high stress scenarios/negotiations. Your decision making abilities are handicapped. And you need to recognize that this is a negotiating tactic used to force quick irrational decisions. Always delay to offset the pressure
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Another important phase in a man’s life is shunning all of the NPC behavior, saying sportsball is gay etc.
Then you get closer to 30 and you realize you’ll have to deal with the normies for the rest of your life at parties, work events etc so you check box scores for small talk
I have been to 3 weddings this year and I have reached my NPC tolerance level for the next 10 years
I know we joke about this stuff on MT but there really are people that revolve their lives around weekend beers and football games and get offended at everything you say
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Took over the COO role as well as CTO role. Workload increased maybe 10 hours a week, have cancelled most recurring meetings, moving to an accountable async world.
Hardest part is accepting that I burned close to a million bucks in funding letting people lollygag for a year
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Cofounder (sales guy) using "mental gymnastics" in sentences thinking it means doing cognitively challenging work
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Taxing unrealized gains is retarded. But taxing illiquid unrealized gains is even more retarded. Most startup founders have millions in paper gains without a market to sell to, who would need to take out 7 figure loans to cover the tax liability. Would be catastrophic for many!
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What’s up with the trend of every girl in NYC wearing these tiny sunglasses and looking like an idiot?
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Reminiscing on the time my 3rd engineering hire, a Hispanic guy I gave his first software engineering job to, did a product demo to our then 8 person company. Shares his screen and he forgot to close out of this niche big booty latina porn site. Good laugh that day
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@CardinalMason
eh not really complaining, have lived here for 8 years, know what things cost. Just funny thinking that $50 is a normal price when you take a step back
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If you can’t handle fast food or alcohol without getting a tummy ache you are weak and GAY!
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Kinda crazy that we don't live in a default "Do Not Disturb" world and the default is notify me every time someone wants to contact me.
Gonna test out treating my phone like an answering machine where I have to actively check for messages rather than constant notifications
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Real 21st century ambition:
Level 1: Start a Family
Level 2: Have Grandkids
Level 3: Live eternally through your bloodline
Shouldn't be afraid to die:
"Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
@growthesque
@aubreystrobel
21st century ambition
Level 1: start a company
Level 2: found a country
Level 3: start an ideology
Level 4: don’t die
Level 5: Homo Deus
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Should have a deal closed by Friday. More importantly flying back to NY with 2 zyns left in the can. Will be my biggest test of my mental toughness of the last 36 hours
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Funny when you think you come up with genius solutions to business problems and then realize the solution isn’t new and a standard business practice that you didn’t understand and just ignored. But you had to feel the pain to understand the reasoning. Many such cases!
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Seems like every hotel I stay in now doesn't send housekeeping daily unless you request it. Now have dirty towels on the floor and an unmade bed like a wild animal.
Can feel establishments losing pride and degrading the customer experience bigly by hiring all of these morons (ni
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Spend six figures (100-150k, "six figures" always refers to this range) a year on GCP only to not have any point of contact or account manager when a billing question comes up
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Crazy stat: 100% of the people on the Forbes 30 under 30 list this year are gay
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Used the phrase “false flag” in a meeting today referring to incorrect conclusions that can be drawn from small data sets.
Like to drop little hints like this to my employees to let them know what I’m about
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In the middle of some corporate and board room warfare. Back room dealing, big fights, tensions high. Yet I remain calm, because I have positioned myself to hold all of the cards. I have the nukes. Lesson is to always make sure you do not place yourself in a position of weakness.
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Underlying problem is that everyone today wants instant gratification and to just jump to the "bottles in Miami" phase without years of eating shit.
Every 22-24 year old thinks they should be CEO of some startup.
Men start out as losers and have to work to become not losers.
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I have now had 6 flights in a row (all within the last 7 days) delayed by 3+ hours or cancelled.
Unreal streak of luck. Both American and Delta. Blame it on the DEI hires. Even saw a group of 15 brothers in airline gear today training. Future not looking bright without Trump!
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Gotta go private for the week while that other post is still blowing up, too much risk while trying to get this deal over the finish line
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Then you realize that there’s a lot of value in going to a ball game with your dad or son, and it has nothing to do with sports. And that there’s some value in meaningless camaraderie with your buddies where you don’t need to be turned on talking about the latest thing
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Sometimes you get so busy that you feel like you barely have enough time to take a dump.
Other times you spend 10-15 minutes on the porcelain throne each day writing great tweets.
Thats life for you
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36 hours in Dallas. May acquire a company, may get my company acquired. Maybe we merge. Let’s find out
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My fiancé is having a bridal shower in her midwestern hometown next weekend, and her mom has been nagging the dad for months to paint the fence before my family gets there.
So he finally gives in yesterday and spends the day painting the fence. And today a tree falls through it
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Many think a girl's relationship with her father will give them the alpha needed to predict the future and long term viability of the relationship, but the better signal is how her mother treats her father. That's how she'll treat you.
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Funny how the brain works, you can know exactly what you need to do, and still spend all your time on optimizing everything around that but never addressing it head on.
No need to waste time setting up a fancy CRM when you don’t have customers, just go talk to them loser!
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Absolute worst part about living with a woman is when she decides to hide all of my things in random drawers like I'll know to look in the cabinets above the microwave for my laptop charger that I left on the couch
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If you give someone the option between a McDonalds cheeseburger and a filet mignon, they will always choose the filet mignon.
If you find a hungry person and offer them a McDonalds cheeseburger, they'll be elated.
Startups need to find hungry customers and solve that leanly.
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Justifying her abortion so she could travel
Every self proclaimed traveler is such a loser. Congrats that you bought a plane ticket and went somewhere. Even ate their local food, wow! You are worse than normal consoomers bc you think your “culture” consumption has meaning
Through this right to choose came so much power - the power to choose a career, the power to wait to marry, the power for upwards economic mobility, the power to travel, the power to CHOOSE to be a mother, the power to live the life she truly wants to live.
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Feel like there's nothing wrong with your wife getting a nice set of bolt ons after she finishes having kids. Little treat for both of you
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Marriage is an important part of getting ahead; lets people know youre not a homo. Married guy seems more stable. People see the ring, they think at least somebody can stand the son of a bitch. Ladies see the ring, they know immediately you must have some cash or your cock works
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Women will never comprehend the joy and relaxation a man has having a few drinks alone at home with something on the TV
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Startups need:
1. Build Value / Innovate
2. Find Customers
3. Execute on value
Once a month I remind myself, and re examine everything we are doing and slash anything that doesn't contribute to one of these three.
So easy to accumulate meetings/tasks that don't move the needle
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Zero percent worried about dorks being mean on the internet lol I get to wake up as me everyday, and thank God for everything he’s blessed me with
@techbronyc
@irentdumpsters
@CardinalMason
Dude ignore these fucking weirdos. Everyone on here is just so fucking mean and wants engagement. Can’t stand it
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No point in reading more than 50-60 pages tops in a session, that’s where I find retention significantly drops.
More ideally you should read those 60 and then reflect / take notes on them in a separate notebook.
Reading is a complete waste of time otherwise
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Really appreciate the yoga pants with white mid calves pulled over them look by the equinox chicks. Not sure what it is or why, but it does it for me
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Important to hire people who like to be known as the guy with answers, and care about their work. That way you can jump in a thread where you don’t really know what’s going on, suggest something slightly wrong, and have them feel forced to jump in to give the correct answer
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Constantly wakemaxxing. As much blue light as possible, caffeine late into the night, weird sleep setup to not get too comfortable. I want to be awake as much as possible, you are a loser and your life must suck if you prefer to be asleep!
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You can outsource your QA team and reduce burn by releasing every product/feature in “beta” and having your users test it for you and tell you what to fix.
Free labor hack
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ChatGPT really is like magic when dealing with annoying dev environment issues. Have had times where fixing my local dev environment took a couple hours, now paste the problem and get my answer in seconds
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It’s unbecoming to ever look at the check at a restaurant. An embarrassing ritual that signals that you’re lower class. Put your card down and don’t think twice.
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Lot of movement between the Tier 2 cities, people jumping from Denver to Portland, Seattle to Miami or Austin after 2-3 years. It's a different type of person who moves there in the first place, chasing new highs, can't really settle down.
Don't see that in the Tier 1s like NYC.
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Most ZIRP startups fail not because of overfunding, but because they couldn’t transition away from DEI culture into wartime/actually run a business/no bullshit culture. Hard to cut the BS once it’s ingrained. Why I’ve always had the culture of do your fucking job and I’ll pay you
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My default mode is to be a hater and dislike people I don’t know, I don’t default to liking people.
Politics/media all about pulling your heart strings for people you didnt know existed until they were put on the news, but for me, I don’t know them so I don’t care. Figure it out
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Applies to employees as well who can place them in positions where they can't be fired. You need to create leverage. You need to own a customer relationship that goes belly up without you. You need to own a part of the tech stack that no one else understands. Position of strength
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Very easy to spend more time talking about building or selling, and not actually spending time doing the actual building and selling.
Should prob be 90/10 ratio:
90% in the field doing X
10% reviewing/strategy etc
~50 hours a week doing, ~5 hours a week reviewing
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Founders have a tendency to lie about revenue/growth projections when raising a funding round, and it’s actually good to show the best case model. But once funding clears, throw that model out and present worst case growth for investors. Need numbers you can consistently hit MoM.
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We play music at the start of weekly all-hands while people hop into the zoom, and today I’m announcing the departure of the VP of Sales, choosing between:
-Real friends - Ye
-Time of your life - Green Day
-Amazing Grace - Bagpipes
-Stay Together for the kids - Blink 182
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